Looking for good/helpful software for windows to get. Stuff that offers QoL improvements etc

And no I don’t care about Linux so don’t bother suggesting I switch to it.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Do you have Obsidian syncing with a mobile device? I’ve been trying to find a good way to do that. Currently using Nextcloud but it’s janky. I know you can pay them for their sync feature but it’s not worth $8 a month to me and I want to host it myself.

    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My current plan is to use SyncThing on the phones and on a linux PC. I’ve set up Obsidian to use a directory locally on the phone (Open Folder As Vault) and use SyncThing to sync that with the PC. As this is only a recent test, I’m still using resilio to sync that dir to other PCs such as my laptop. I just added to a note on my phone and it appeared in Obsidian on my laptop a few seconds later, despite two different syncs being involved.

      I’d commented about bugs such as the sync percentage being stuck at 91%, but on reading up on it more, that’s due to a mis-match of ignored files (the ignore patters were the same, but it was still indicating that the files did not match between the two devices).

      So my thoughts still stand that SyncThing has a lot of things to set up manually (e.g. it doesn’t automaticall sync between all peers) and the mobile app is strange for having two different UIs, but it looks like as I understand it better I’m happier to keep using it.

      If I find that the Resilio phone app is better on battery life, I might switch back to that because I use resilio everywhere else and it’s simpler to set up (and I like that it archives old versions of files for a while).

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        If you can create notes on the phone you’re doing better than I am with Nextcloud. I’ve never been able to get anything I made on the phone to sync, i can edit and it will sync TO the phone but for whatever reason it doesn’t work the other way with new files. I have a workaround of having a standing “scratch” note that I copy stuff out of when i’m back at home but it’s an extra annoyance i’d rather not deal with.

        • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Syncthing seems to be a good way to get real-time two-way sync so far, but I’ve had a few accidents while setting it up, overwriting latest changes. Probably my fault, but I’m glad that I have backups to other machines.

          I tried owncloud years ago and I didn’t want something that heavyweight for file syncing. And I think it stores a copy of all it’s days in a database too. I just want to sync files in-place only. I haven’t tried that or nextcloud in a long time.